Question

if a mom was homozygous dominant for a genetic disease and the dad was heterozygous what are the possible genotypes of the offspring

Answer 1

Do a Punnet square and find out.

Answer 2

*Punnett

Answer 3

obvioulsy but i dont want to thats why i asked the question cause i got 50 other things to do so why don't you do it for me

Answer 4

Uh... it's your homework, that means you're supposed to do it.

Answer 5

actually its not my homework but thats okay thanks though.

Answer 6

Well, it's certainly not MY homework. I've told you how to answer this question, and you should be able to do it yourself in roughly 5 seconds.

Answer 7

well i certainly didnt say it was YOUR homework.... and if i wanted to i wouldnt have posted the question and if you weren't going to answer then dont even comment in the first place

Answer 8

I told you how to answer the question. That's the kind of help that people are supposed to give on this site.

But seriously, you shouldn't expect other people to answer questions for you, especially when you know how to answer them yourself. If you want good grades, you need to do your own work... and if you don't want good grades, you might as well drop out now!

Answer 9

i have good grades trust me i dont have to worry about that and one question isn't going to hurt my grade so i guess i wont have to drop out after all

Answer 10

You have good grades... and yet when faced with a question like this, you think it's better to ask someone else to do it for you than to spend 5 seconds answering it yourself? Trust me, those grades aren't going to stay good if that's your usual approach.

Answer 11

Kate, no one is going to do the problem for you. It is a lot easier to help you do it yourself if you tell us what about the question is giving you trouble. For this one the workflow goes like this:

1. Assign a notation to the gene and to alleles of that gene. G for dominant, g for recessive, pick whatever letter you want.

2. Write out both the parents' genotypes in that notation.

3. Use those genotypes to set up the Punnet Square.

4. Do the Punnet Square to get the genotypes of the offspring.

5. Interpret the offspring's genotypes. What sort of phenotypes will they have?

Hope that's helpful.